Walking around China, Botan crunched her nose in surprise of the smell. Unfortunately, the next candidate for Kurama resided in a not-so-nice part of China in the Hong Kong area. She started to breathe less and less as she walked through the streets, making her way toward the school where she would attend.

Luckily enough, she would be attending an English speaking school, as she did not have much time to brush up on her Chinese and had recently used some English. Learning languages had begun to be a talent for her now as she had been needing to speak more than one language recently, however she did prefer her native language to speaking other ones. Opening the door, she looked around and saw a few seats residing in front of what appeared to be an office. A boy sat outside, reading a book silently to himself. He definitely looked Chinese with a warm tone to his tan skin and a nice round feel to his face with an average build for an Asian boy.

"Okay.. I'm looking for Jun Gong…" she thought to herself as she approached the office. Before entering the office, she gave a last look at the boy who was the spitting image of the boy in the picture she was looking for. Within this glance she noticed his eyes darting across the pages like a wildfire.

"Umm… excuse me" she added cheerfully as she turned to him. He looked up at her and gave her a warm smile as a greeting.

"Hello, do you need something" he added and then blinked. He was polite, yet she could tell he was not very interested in talking and wished to resume reading. Botan nodded and smiled. He suddenly looked interested in her as he noticed more features about her, particularly her eyes and hair.

"Yes, actually, I was wondering if you wouldn't mind telling me what to do here. See, Iim new and I was going to head to the office to get a class schedule, but I do not know where any of the classes are." The boy nodded and smiled, although it was more a triumphant smile than a greeting one.

"Very well. Get your schedule and I'll help you." Botan grinned, adding in a 'thanks' as she went to obtain her schedule, and stepped outside of the office shortly after. Politely, he lead her to her first class and explained the layout of the school, then turned to Botan with a curious look in his eye with a hint of a smirk in his expression.

"Reikai up to something" he asked before she entered. Botan froze, then turned around to face him.

"You know of reikai" she asked quietly, convinced that he was definitely Jun Gong, yet the picture proved that before. The boy nodded.

"If you know where to look, you can find anything. I do not know very much, but I have a basic idea of the monarchy system and of the more famous spirit detectives. What are you doing here"

"Looking for someone, actually. The name Minamino doesn't sound familiar to you at all, does it" she asked. Jun Gong shook his head no. He definitely should have remembered something should he have been Kurama, and the mention of his name would have been a major trigger.

"Nope, sorry. Would you like some help looking" he asked. Botan shook her head.

"No, I need to do this on my own." The boy paused before he nodded.

"I see. Good luck, then." Botan turned around, then started to walk off. Having proved Jun Gong not to be Kurama, he wasn't much more use. Although, his knowledge of Reikai may become dangerous or helpful in the future which caused her to pause as she walked.

"Wait… how did you know I was from reikai" Botan asked as she turned around to face him. He shrugged.

"Your hair and eyes are not natural colors for a human, and I figured you might be an apparition perhaps. Umm… 'Ferry Girl' I think the term is. Looking for someone who died recently to collect their soul, I would have guessed." Botan grinned.

"Something along those lines." About to give a friendly goodbye, a girl with badly dyed green hair ran down the hallway and grabbed Jun Gong by the collar desperately.

"We've been hacked" she cried out, although her voice was quiet as to not disturb anyone else. Perhaps though, her voice was naturally calm and quiet.

"What" Gong answered, looking very dumbfounded and shocked. "How"

"Someone from England got into our database and started to delete some of our progress. Ting thinks it was a member from the student council who wanted us to not use the school computers anymore, but Jacki things that it was the biotechnology company from America that wanted us to back down from the field."

Gong groaned. "It could easily be either.. Come on let's go. Are you coming" he asked Botan, and she shrugged.

"Why not"

After climbing up a fight of stairs, she followed Gong and the girl into a room full of computers where a group of people were huddled around the last computer. Gong took the main seat and the girl walked over to the side.

"See, our files have been interrupted. You know that no one can get in without the retinal scan, the password, and decoding the correct information to delete what they want. And you know what they deleted" the girl begun adding in. Glancing over their shoulders, Botan saw a list of folders with a strange program and a grid with a line emerging that stayed in a flat slope.

"The energy rating.. No… it isn't working anymore…" Gong replied. The girl nodded.

"We looked into the program. The main component of I which transfers the energy into signals is gone, and that means we can't add the machines into the equation anymore. Plus, we have evidence that it was copied from our computer to another, which means that they have the information." Gong nodded, and grinned.

"That means we can track them back with a few history checks, and then steal the information back" Gong added but then another boy cut him off.

"And delete what they have" he asked. Gong shook his head.

"No, alter it so that they don't know we did anything after we copy it to our computer." Botan watched in amazement as Gong worked the computer, and had a slight idea what he was doing.

"Hey" the boy cut in, and pointed to Botan. "What is she doing here"

"She's a ferry girl," Gong replied. They all stared at her in amazement.

"An honest to god ferry girl" the girl from before asked as she looked at Botan with amazement. Gong nodded.

"Look at her blue hair. You can tell that isn't dye, it her natural hair color." The girl examined a lock of Botan's hair, making her feel a bit silly for a moment and then she pulled back.

"Wow, it is" she exclaimed, highly amused by Botan's hair. "So, she can use the 'ki', right" Gong nodded in reply.

"Yeah, I imagine she can."

"What an honor.. actual reikai personel here at BT" another member, male, chimed in.

"Huh" Botan asked, confused by the use of 'BT'.

"Biotechnology... though the full name is Biotechnology Unit Spirit Energy, we just say BT." The other girl who spoke before looked frightened and approached Botan.

"Oh no, does that mean someone died" she asked. "Is it going to be one of us" Botan shook her head and giggled. She had forgotten how much humans feared death since Yusuke was around.

"Oh, dear, no. None of you have a death in the near future, I assure you that" Botan replied, then paused. "Although, you aren't really supposed to know that. It's classified information." Gong turned to Botan.

"Well, everything is now set in order. See, we were trying to find a way to use average human ki to invent electronic devices that could help harness the energy and use it for various things. Soon after finding about reikai, we learned little of this so called 'spirit energy' and wanted to use it, so I gathered a group together and we now try to work with it for good intentions. Currently, a healing device which we are close to completing."

Botan nodded and smiled. "Well, good luck with that." The last girl stepped forward.

"If you ever want our assistance, feel free to contact us." The girl grinned and held out what resembled a business card. Botan nodded.

"I will, don't worry. But I must be going soon, I need to hurry to Japan. Good-bye, everyone" she said cheerfully and waved.